>Mangatoshokan is now based on korean and chinese manga
Is there a Naruto, Bleach and One Piece equivalent for the Koreans and Chinese?

;_;

Shit, I have to start reading books now.

>>38197503
Naburo

The only thing that worries me at all about the various online reading sites going down, is wondering how many scanlators will stop scanlating because they feel like their work won't be seen by many.

Hopefully anime streaming is next.

>And with that, online manga viewing as we know it has been shut down.
And nothing of value was lost.

Why are the publishers so xenophobic? This isn't going to help their sales. If not for online manga viewers, I would have never bought my Gintama volumes. Hell, I wouldn't have even KNOWN about Gintama.

Will mangafox be going down too? I don't see any messages or anything on it.

Shutting these aggregators down certainly won't get us to buy more manga, not when prices are still too high. If entire volumes were $4-8 like they were in Japan, I'd reconsider not buying more.

>>38197595
They've been hit extremely hard. Somehow, they managed to get back Naruto, Bleach and One Piece but it'll go down again really soon.

AND NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST

Any chance of getting crunchyscans or something similar?

http://mangastream.com/

>>38197589

They know that they won't be able to sell licensing rights to English companies if the English companies don't buy them because no one buys their overpriced crap.

>>38197635
They were paid like $700,000 for something manga related. I don't know when they'll be doing it though.

>>38197614
Who cares about the big 3? Just go to any chain bookstore and they'll have every fucking volume.

So can anyone run by me how the fuck the FTP works seeing as the bots are useless right now given that the actual #lurk site is down

Oh boi now I sure will buy the chapters for 6 € each where Ichigo is still in mexico. not

>>38197675
No, I'm saying they've lost pretty much everything else. The only thing they have right now is big 3, manhua, manhwa and some lesser known manga.

Hrm, now that I think of it, losing OM *is* pretty inconvenient. Now I can't look up the pages for specific events quickly to back up my arguments.

Well that fucking sucks. Where there's demand there's supply though, so I think we can all relax knowing that we are going to keep getting manga, but through different channels.

I actually bought manga based on previewing on One Manga. So this will actually cause me to buy less manga.

Thanks a lot, manga licensors.

Stop making threads about this shit.

>>38197675

Not just the Big Three, but most manga are at least a few months, some even years behind.

I don't really think I'll maintain interest in the series I'm currently reading if I have to wait for certain ones to catch up. Some of the ones I read aren't even licensed.

NOW I'VE LOST IT

>>38197663
That is odd though isn't it. Lots of products are sold at vastly different prices to different markets all the time. And with this product you even have built in protection in the form of a language barrier. Japs cannot into bsns.

This is a good thing, really.

I mean, I spend too much time reading manga as it is. It's there on a website, and if I'm bored I can just stay up all night going through an entire series I haven't read yet.

The convenience turns against us all. My only regret is that I didn't bother saving some of my favorite series which won't likely come over, like Mx0 or Zettai Karen Children.

All I know is that Viz better license Billy Bat now.

does anyone know where they could find the latest yotsuba chapters?

Use Baka Updates you stupid fucks.

IT'S LIKE I'M REALLY READING IT AT ITS INTENDED RESOLUTION!

>>38197661
Maybe if all you read is the Big Three and a handful of other shounen.

you guys know what, like 5 of this sites? all from top 10 google resuslts because you are lazy as fuck.
you think any of these sites produce the content? fuck no.

onlinemangafags confirmed retarded.

>>38197589
Simple.
Sales are decreasing, correct?

As a publisher, you have to look for ways to correct this.There are TWO ways to deal with decreasing sales.

A.Remove Factors that Decrease Sales.
B.Create Factors that Increase Sales.

B is largely on the hands of the actual production company- and somewhat of the advertising department.

A, means studying what causes loss of sales.
Some of these are supposedly:
1.The Weakening Economy.
2.Changes in Trends.
3.Piracy.

Well, Publishers cant do anything about 1, and 2 is again largely an image problem that needs to be dealt with by the advertising department, so to feel useful, they'll crack down on 3.

Why?
Because in the end- they break it down as "Piracy affects potential sales." that simple.

from a publishing standpoint, this still makes no fucking sense. literally removing UN-licensed shit from their site is the silliest thing ive ever heard. nobody can actually buy it anywhere, so whats the fucking problem. goddamn xenophobic shit, it makes no sense.

>>38197779
First they came for... etc. All that quoted old text.

Can I interest you in superior manhwa?

http://www.mangatoshokan.com/read/Immortal-Regis/Meep-Scans/1/1

R.I.P. OM

>>38197779

They are uneasy as well, they don't know if they will be hit as well.

>>38197783
Good, there's still some places to read One Piece(the only series I care from Jump), it's a shame that the chances to find lesser known series are pretty reduced now.

I like OneManga because its a lot easier zooming in FireFox and sitting in bed to read than it is to get a fucking image viewer to zoom lock properly.

Also, it let me read a manga to see if I liked it without having to spend forever to track down files because the group that did chapters 1-8 went defunct two years ago and nobody else hosted their scans.

Who cares? We've been getting out mangoes through our usual channels just fine before all this online clustefuck mango sites popped up. Now we can go back there again, and there'll be less retards cluttering up /a/.

>>38197817

If you are lucky, bookstores can ship for you. But it will take at least 2 weeks to an entire month to ship. Plus you pay twice as much to import. Planned to get some obscure stuff that way.

>IT'S LIKE I'M REALLY READING IT AT ITS INTENDED RESOLUTION!

Because you have a 2123x1600 resolution monitor right? I thought so. Now sit the fuck down.

>my face when idiots don't know about niche online viewers I know about

I wonder how long until they hit mangatraders. I've had a 1.5 TB harddrive laying around for months saying I'll fill it in case something like this happens.

Also, are they specifically targeting manga? Why have I not seen tears about anime streaming sites being shot down?

EVER
EVER
FOREVER SHINE!

>>38197903
those sites made things a lot more convenient, though.

>>38197903

There will be the same amount of retards. There will just be daily posts asking how to use IRC and such.

and nothing of value was lost

Just download the internet like I am. I'm filling up my eternal hard drive with every manga I read or intended to read. They can't stop me now!

man, Im the only old fag here that was used to download the zips or going to irc? Its more timeconsuming, but if you really like a series you lurk it and find it.

>>38197952
DELETE YOUR POST RIGHT NOW! I DON'T WANT PEOPLE KNOWING ABOUT THIS SITE! Seriously, if you don't, it'll get taken down! Please delete

>>38197935
The anime production companies didn't go apeshit on the Internet yet. Only localization groups such as Funi did.

>>38197946

Yes, but sooner or later, we'll have the same amount of convenience delivered to us, albeit through a different channel. When there's demand, it will be met, whatever means necessary.

It's the publisher's fault for not meeting the said demand, and by taking down online mango sites, they are just making the problem worse since they're not even bothering finding new means of distribution.

>>38198002
Don't worry, the lawyers are just going to be confused by the amazingly shitty webdesign. They'll be too busy asking "what the fuck?" to decide whether to shut down the site or not.

>>38198002
I saw it....but I'll respect your wishes.

>>38198001

nah, people in /a/ doesn't like anime and manga anymore, that's why they streams anime and read manga online.

Fuck.
You guys.
I'm a /mu/fag. I have no idea how to get manga outside of sites like OM.
Where do you go to download your manga, o wise sages of /ɐ/?

Damn, I do love me some Baka Updates and Stoptazmo

>>38197903
>channels
>s
I only know of #lurk. Do you know of any that are more updated?

we'll morn online manga reading later but right now im sad for all the poor tanslate fags and owners of all the manga sites! :'(

>>38198002
http://www.mangareader.net
Terrible image quality.
Garbage.

>>38198046

HUNDREDS OF CHANNELS FROM THE SCANLATOR SITES!

I laugh at people who come to online reading site who praise that place like its a heaven for manga.
while the scanlators site only got one hit counter from those site leecher each time their released new chapter.

I bet none of you knows who's the one scanlating your favorite series.
Pathetic.

>>38198043
Alright, I'll help out a newfriend.

go to gotlurk.net (when it comes back online) and search for manga. download by connecting to their irc channel and using the xdcc bot (google for instructions on how to do this)

OR, go to mangaupdates and find the series you want. Click on a release for the chapter you want to read and it'll have a link to the scan team's website. you can download/read it from here.

>>38198043
try mangafox, or mangavolume i guess, but nothing compares to OneManga :(

People like to shit on online viewing but let's say all online viewing sites go down, where do I actually get batches of slightly more obscure or older manga? TT, NT, etc. has some but not nearly the assortment in all online viewing sites combined.

mangastream haset

>>38198092
Lots of the teams nowadays don't even have chans, they just have websites, FYI.

So, can companies hit translator and scanlator groups?

I mean, are they gonna tell them:
"NO, stop offering different forms of translations and editing! "

Cause that would be weird.

You cant stop someone from making a file and dumping it on rapidshare.

>>38198141
they can't do a fucking thing. scanlation will never go away

>>38198127

and a lot of channels bot usually have packlist for their favorite series, even if was another group works.

Time to go back to Direct DLs

lol, i just found it and started to read manga a week ago

i think it's my fault

>>38198122
every manga that I've wanted are available either on lurk or bakabt

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>>38198092
>implying i didn't check zawanons mediafire page every single day and download kaiji from it

>lurk moar

YES! Finally, this shit will get it's meaning back!

>>38198106
You're wonderful. Thank you.

>implying there won't be more of those sites who give a fuck about publishers.

>>38198141
They COULD, technically speaking, but that would be incredibly stupid and useless (filing a goddamn lawsuit against an Internet group just isn't worth the trouble you have to go through). They'll just take down the most popular websites, as they've always done.

>>38198127
Scanlator here, channels are pretty useless (on a per group basis) for manga releases that rarely breaks 20MB. Files are easy to re-up to your favorite online host at that size too. #lurk type channels are awesome though, especially on older stuff.

>>38198151

LINDA Project and Ariel Rebel says Hi.

Great thing I switched to DDLs.

>>38198245
They can't stop groups from operating, they can request takedowns from DDL sites but considering the amount of real warez that's in there going unnoticed, it's a wasted effort.

First they came for the etcetera, etcetera, etc.

I already buy my shit because I have a job and can afford it, but how much longer can you faggots last? "Oh, SOMEONE will pirate it for us; they always do!" Yeah, sure. Just keep telling yourselves that.

Times are changing, and you're going to need to change too if you don't want to be left behind.

I don't think I can get used to korean and chinese manga. The characters have some weird names. I'd never be able to remember who's who.

>>38198392

Sure is trolls trolling trolls in here.

>>38198392
>I already buy my shit
It's like you're reading 2 years old suff. Oh wait you really are.

So they shut down online manga sites? Big fucking deal, I switch to the superior alternative.

Wild scenario here, they shut down scanlator sites? What's that going to do, convince me to buy manga? Never bought manga before, and the disappearance of piracy (lol) will not change my stance.

>>38198392
Things will never truly change. You're a lone sheep who has wandered from the herd.

>>38198392
There's nothing to buy unless it's translated. Unfortunately, since they won't translate it themselves, I'll never buy it.

>>38198425
Shhh, he can afford it and is too busy making triple backflips into Maseratis driven by supermodels anyway.

>>38198110
>but nothing compares to OneManga :(

lol seriously?

>>38198451
Maseratis are McDonald's pay level, bitch. And you really think I'd let a woman drive for me?

>>38197779
Why would I ever wanna read manga at that high of a resolution? 2123 x 1600 is not the "intended" resolution. Show me one real life copy of manga that is that fucking huge.

You are suppose to be able to see the whole fucking page without scrolling.

>>38198110
Downloading Manga does.

>>38198515
This is true. Real life manga has a resolution of 800x600.
Scanlations are upscaled.

>>38198515

real books have resolution?

gonna miss online readers since it was a fast and easy way to browse lesser known titles and compare scanlators.

>>38198392
Quite honestly I only buy stuff that people don't scanlate. Although I'll probably start buying Asu no Yoichi soon as the retail version is going to outpace the scans.
And pretty soon you won't even be able to buy anything outside of big three and Negima, since manga companies are having so many problems.
Speaking of, you know what pisses me off? Yen Press changes the covers of their light novels they license to appeal to a wider audience, and then have Borders and B&N shelve them in Manga rather than one of the places the wider audience will actually look for them.

>>38198575

I'd care more about Manga Stream if they had Reborn added onto their list

inb4 >he reads Reborn

>>38198575
Dots Per Inch.

>>38198626

that's DPI right?

how many DPI they usually used? 150 or 300?

>>38198614
Seconding this.

I don't buy anything that's had a shit translation job done to it. This means nearly anything Tokyopop has ever released.

>>38198614
I dropped Reborn a few months ago when they had vegetable costumes on or something. Did I msis anything? I don't intend to read it more though

It's like /rs/ doesn't even exist. Holy shit.

>>38198782
You missed Yamamoto probably not ever being able to walk again.

>>38198782
You missed Overpowered and Vongola being shucked.

>>38198782
You missed the Varia and Longchamp as well.

>>38197562
Yup, this will kill many groups sadly.

>>38198816
>>38198816
>>38198816
>>38198816
>>38198816
;_;??

pff, they should just create IRC channels from their online viewers and problem solved

>>38198849
He got gutted by the guy everybody dressed up as vegetables for.
I'm still sad about it.

lurk is down too, wat do?

>>38197562
>>38198848

i don't know if this was a sarcasm or you guys are really retarded

>>38198767
The only thing I've bought is the first volume of SZS. Del Rey seems to have a good policy on translations, the TL notes pretty much say fuck localization, I'll probably buy more.

>>38198614
>>38198700
>>38198782
I dropped Reborn at issue 100 when I noticed the only character who was remotely likable was the bomb dude and the MC was a whiny brat who won every single fucking fight through deus ex machina.

>>38198905
I smell conspiracy

im glad i caught up with deadman wonderland on onemanga today.
inb4 you tastes>my tastes.

I know sites like OM aren't really the "best" way to get manga, but they sure are pretty damn convenient, and lower resolution images are nice for saving disk space when you want to download a series for future reading.

On that note, I'm wishing I knew a good way to rip all of OM, or at least entire series so I could keep the ones I like on discs or something for posterity.

Anybody happen to know how to do such siterips?

>>38198907

Scanlators do what they do because of e-peen.

I'm glad I caught up with Nurarihyon no--wait, I downloaded that.

Still, shame it's going down.

>>38198964
Lurk always goes down each month, nothing new here. It'll be back up in a few days. However, I'm still waiting on my FTP access (from a $30 donation 3 months ago), stalyn you jew.

>>38198910
Yes, while Tokyopop is on my shitlist, I do own some of Del Rey's releases because they do translations right.

But I probably wouldn't have bought anything at all if I didn't have the chance to be introduced to manga released by scanslators.

>>38198849
Just go read the most recent chapters off of OneManga or MangaFox.

Who cares? This'll just weed out the retards and /a/ will become a better place

>>38199050

I'm doing it because its a good way to learn Japanese.

I download my manga but used onemanga as a simple list just to see what the fuck was out.

>For some of you, this may be your last visit to MangaToshokan, but before you leave we would appreciate it if you could fill out a short six question survey that we are going to share the results to the publishers.

take the survey, pl0x
http://www.mangatoshokan.com/survey/index.php?sid=33624

>>38199134
This is also true. I noticed that HUTNER X HUNTER had come out of hiatus for like a month thanks to OM.

>>38199050
I started (and still do) scanlate because groups doing series I liked were failures. Backlog of several chapters/volumes and releasing one chapter every 3 weeks or so? Yeah, fuck that, I'm doing this shit myself and showing them how it's done.

>>38199134
dude, there's http://www.mangaupdates.com/

>>38199035
Shell script-fu

>>38199035
www.mangatraders.com

>>38198061
>:'(
Stop that.

Just use Baka Updates and find DDL, torrent, and IRC releases, faggots.

Well guys, blatant manga copyright infringement in centralized places had a good run, but I guess it's time we returned to underground and decentralized vehicles for downloading our mango.

god damn, the age of IRC is going to start again
How can i go back to that now after i got so fucking lazy with online viewing and direct downloading?

Well at least I was only reading FMP and Ippo every now and then. That should be easy to find elsewhere.

>>38199035
domdomsoft, google it. Won't work for much longer, once they start taking everything offline, but if you're quick you can get most of what you want right now.

And this is why intellectual property, in both concept and execution, is idiotic. Instead of focusing resources on better content, better distribution, etcetera, IP holders waste resources on "piracy", which will never create more than single-digit percentage points in losses, is usually undertaken by people who "pirate" far more than they could possibly buy, and is mostly an excuse for the IP holder's own organizational shortcomings.

All the while creating ill will among the fanbase, making them MORE committed to not buying licensed products, and ultimately, "piracy" is impossible to stop unless you shut down the Internet.

>>38199050
Many scanlators actually hate these online reading sites because they resize and compress the pages.

>>38197467

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People pirate because pirates provide a better service it is that simple.

>>38199767
notice that people buy from steam because it provides top-notch service at relatively low prices

Steam is pretty much "Exhibit A" on "how to provide a better product than a provider that can offer a lesser version at zero cost"

>>38197588
what this guy said

Their compresed images sucks, their forums sucks and their community, why i should care?

It's the Manga equivalent of someone having the songs they ripped to Youtube being taken down by WMG. Another one will pop up in its place and it will take them another few years to notice.

Hopefully anime streaming sites will be targeted next.

This really doesn't deter hardcore piraters (who will find another way to get what they want) while basically shutting down a way for interested people to view content before purchasing. It's not like I can't just walk into Borders and read an entire volume anyway.

>>38200081
That will be awesome

>>38200105
No one with taste was using One manga anyway

So if they could do this, well let's just say it, this easily with manga sites, what's stopping them for anime?

It's been a fansub vs industry war forever

I guess I should start archiving all the okay tier mangas that I was reading.

>>38200157
Because they arent stoping scanlators they are stopping shitty stream sities.

>>38200199
>archiving from one manga
You like low quality dont you?

>>38200201
Well the one big streaming site in CR, got industry backing and money. Oh well, looks like I'll be using Manga updates more.

>>38200226

nah, he just lazy.

I don't get all of the hate on streaming/viewing online sites. For people who don't want to download huge files (sorry I have a capped bandwith limit a month) their very helpful. If people choose to watch reduced quality instantly by going to a site I don't see the harm in that.

>>38199712

Piracy exists primarily because there is a lack of distribution, it's not the cause of it

If all unlicensed and licensed manga was released state side like it was in japan, there wouldn't be a problem, but because it's not, OM exists at all

It's fucking stupid

>>38200377
That's the real victim here, the unlicensed stuff. I've found tons of random manga on Mangahelpers and other sites that I never would of known about.

I wonder if scanlators could re-locate all their shit to exhentai.org.

Shit is untouchable.

That aside, One manga was gay to begin with.

Make a scanlating website just for /a/.

>>38200399
By your logic no one would be pirating Jump titles.

Which is definitely wrong.

>>38200416
How exactly is it untouchable? also aren;t they only for you know, porn?

>>38200370
And thats exactly was wrong with it.

>>38200462
eh?

I was talking about the ability to find things like "Say I Love You" and others. Of course the Jump stuff is the reason why they're getting shut down.

>>38200471
What exactly? the reduced quality people choose to watch on their own? The instant access to an episode/manga? Please do be more specific.

>>38200489
quoted wrong post, was meant to quote >>38200377

Everyone that is posting...

>online manga viewing

...obviously fails to grasp the big picture, now that the publishers have witness how much of pushover the distribution sites are, they'll obviously target the groups next.

Scanalations as a whole are finished

Onemanga sucked anyway.

they had a stupid ass policy regarding manga that was too violent or too sexy, even before the threat of advertisers pulling shit.

Also, if manga publishers were smart, they'd get in touch with the current trends to offer online subscriptions, and hire up some of these scanlators (some, not all) to translate various series to english, or hire translators period.

fuck dealing with North American publishers, who often censor out shit. They could start their own shit, and accept money from audiences around the world.

They'd make bank easily. Especially from countries where the currency holds higher value.


But then again, we're talking about japan here, they cant make business decisions on their own merits, they have to copy someone else.

They should embrace the internet if sales are failing. I mean, come the fuck on, look at all the people reading the shit online. Hint hint, that's where your audience is, idiots.

>>38200465
Exhentai.org added a Manga tab quite some time ago.

It may NOT be untouchable exactly, but the fact that you have to have an account to even see it makes it a bit more defensable.

>Make a legal site
>Put on the first volume for online free reading of licensed stuff.
>Get people interested in the serie
>???
>Maybe people will buy the rest.

>>38200577
Shouldn't it have Non-H tabs?

well... with this kind of topic... /r/-ing that IRC guide please kind /ɐ/non, been lazy as fuck because of relying on online manga viewer, need a back-up line for direct download in case the worst thing happened.

>>38200506
They choose to watch/read a lot in shitty quality, instead of watch/read a few in good quality, thats bad taste.
Lucky for us One manga is dead and weabos, narutards and gaiafags will need to learn to IRC or just disappear.

>>38197562
hahahahhahahahahaha *breathe* HAHAHAHHAhahahah

>>38200556

0/10

even they can't stop the Movies piracy

>>38200506

I don't give a fuck how you look at it, just don't post your shit sites or images on /a/.

I used to download my manga when I began reading, from IRC
People started hosting DDLs so I started using those
Online readers came along, I didn't use them, used my DDLs and IRC
Online readers went down, I will carry on using my DDLs and IRC.

Nothing of value was lost. Anyone else never bothered with on-line readers?

>>38200600
It has non-h and manga tabs.

It'll be gone for now, but it'll come back.

>>38197898
acdsee4.0

>>38200620
Are you me? Same here.

Shit sucks, I honestly can't even begin to count how many different series I got into because of Onemanga. Sure it has shit resolution and costs them profits, but it's just got such a huge backlog of obscure unlicensed shit that's hard to find elsewhere, and I still buy physical copies of about the same number series as I did before Onemanga was around.

It's true that some other more resilient sites will probably spring up in the coming weeks, but I doubt anything will get back up to the level that Onemanga was at in terms of # of series and a centralized location for checking for updates.

My one last hope is that someone makes a current siterip and puts it out in torrent form so that I can at least finish off all the series I had in my backlog later.

looks like there is every hour new Onemanga thread... why won't mods just sticky one of these

http://www.mangatoshokan.com/read

>>38197562
you do realize most scanlators would probably view their efforts as theft anyway. but when you do shit like "viewed on mangafox" like they scanlated it.

I don't care much about manga anyways, there were very few things that either didn't have anime or went on longer than their anime that I even bothered to read.

I won't grieve for the loss of the OM simply because it brought too much exposure to what always was and should have remained a grey operation.

It's quite likely that scanlations will all but die until this whole thing blows over (6 months to a year if I have had to guess) assuming the scanlators don't close up shop entirely.

What I'm far more interested in is which will happen first, the resurrection of scanlation or the financial panic with companies realizing they fucked up spectacularly.

>>38200620

Brofist.

Mangaupdates is so far behind on the updates that it isn't even funny.
How can you fucks even THINK of suggesting that site.

>implying that anime and manga licensees have ever successfully taken down a group before

Wake me up when Mangastream goes down

I bought lots of manga as a tribute to the series I liked from reading and downloading online manga.

Congratulations publishers, no more money for you!

>>38200738
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>>38200738
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>>38200738
better alternative?

>>38200713
>there were very few things that either didn't have anime
Wut? fucking summer

>>38200738

That's because some faggot scanlators don't update it. It's fine for all of the manga I'm following, though that only numbers between 10 to 20.

>>38200751
Hopefully soon

>>38200777
>there were <a> very few things that either didn't have anime

Thanks for catching that, there's a typo there but everyone with an IQ higher than 80 could probably have figured it out.

ITT retards need to learn to internet

>>38200767

http://www.mangatoshokan.com/read
http://www.mangatoshokan.com/read
http://www.mangatoshokan.com/read
http://www.mangatoshokan.com/read

Jesus fucking christ, we've been telling you all along how reading manga online is a f****** retarded thing to do. Are you finally starting to see it by now?

>>38200822

>>38200751
I will send an e-mail to the group taking down those sites and tell them about shitty mangastream, with some luck we will get rid of the worst scanlators out there

>>38200829
It hasn't ever been retarded and takedowns don't make it retarded. Welcome to 4chan by the way, you can post cursewords freely here!

>>38200809
That wasnt my point, the amount of manga is ten times the amount of anime, you are a retard

>>38200852
mangastream scanlate now?

>>38200905
You never saw the huge water mark?

>>38200881
>It hasn't ever been retarded
yes it has. downscaled images which doesn't apply to mangatoshokan but onemanga I guess, laggy navigating because lolbrowser, varying in quality because there's only one version of the manga, no true fullscreen with black background immersion

>and takedowns don't make it retarded.
if this doesn't then what does? see mangatoshokan, almost all of their japanese content are removed, what do you have to rely on now? s*** the f**** up

>>38200852
>take down mangastream
They only ever keep 3 chapters up of the series and urge you to support the series, sure looks like they're going to be shut down.

I'm not so much annoying that they're closing down sites left, right and centre but rather they're doing this without giving most of us any real options.

If I could read high quality manga that's released on time and is up to date, I'd pay a small fee or subscription. Lucky for me I'm not a broke ass 12 year old. Money isn't a problem for me and plenty others.

As it is now my only 2 options is either to go off looking for different sources which considering publishers are on the attack right now which would probably put more pressure on good scanlators over time.
Not to mention most non mainstream manga I read is only because I read a chapter or two on sites like OM while looking around.
Or I drive for 5 hours to the nearest store that sells manga which he gets at random times and then drive home for 5 hours. Fuck that.

We're in a digital age now, time for publishers to realise that.

>>38200969
>If I could read high quality manga that's released on time and is up to date, I'd pay a small fee or subscription.

but they already exist and there are more sites to come.

You guys, none of this would have happened if you would have just started buying Manga. It's more enjoyable that way anyways.
Yeah, I guess it sucks that we can't read obscure Manga anymore, but, they'll always be ways. It just won't be easily accessible through websites such as these.

I wish they'd let us just download manga digitally for a fee or something, it's not the cost that bothers me it's that I hate having stuff that takes up place.

>>38200895
And I said nothing about the total amount of manga you ignorant nigger.
Learn to reading comprehension.

>there were <a> very few things that either didn't have anime or went on longer than their anime that I even bothered to read.

>there were very few manga that I read and those were ones with X or Y factors

>>38201004
>buy
Yeah, you do that. I will keep using IRC

The thing is, I read most of my manga on my PS3/Wii. If it's a really good series, like Black Lagoon or TWGOK, I'll download and read it on my PC, but for other series I just can't be bother to track down old scans of for an half an hour and then read through them all in ten minutes. Sites like MT and Onemanga were really convient for casual browsing.

This is why this crap frustrates me.

>>38200998
Could you give me a few sites? Thanks.

I have heard of Open Manga today that's apparently trying to put most manga you'd find on sites like OM and so on on their site legally. But I don't know the finer details.

>>38200949
>laggy because of lolbrowser

maybe if you have a computer from last century and netscape

>>38201079
Exactly my point too. I wouldn't have come across Mangas like 20th Century Boys, Monster, Bakuman, Vagabond and plenty others or consistently read them if it wasn't for sites like OM.

>>38201004
>You guys, none of this would have happened if you would have just started buying Manga. It's more enjoyable that way anyways.
>It's more enjoyable that way anyways.

>buyfag trying very hard to justify his expensive paperweight made from paper

>/ɐ/ talks about a new manga
>use mangatoshokan, onemanga, etc and save in favorites
>update browser favorite/shortcut to the last chapter out
>simply click the shortcut link to see if new chapter is out

I will miss this life ;_;

>>38197809
If the stupid fucks would finally realize that it's about the cost/performance ratio, they MIGHT consider doing a better job at translations and/or think about how to make manga more affordable.

#lurk/Mangatraders

>>38201163
People like you shouldnt read those manga anyway, stick to naruto.

So now i need to find some small, shitty (moreso then OM) site to read or start downloading.

what if the publishers just made a website and hire the scanlators to look after it and fill it up with ads.

>>38201080
well.. there is this and few others that I can't seem to remember but anyway http://openmanga.org/

Well, that's it. I won't buy mangas from that publishers ever again.

>>38201163

so you only knows Obata, Inuoe and urasawa because of OM?

i bet you just start reading manga this year.

Don't worry, we're making HorribleManga, hosted in a bunker, to replace OneManga.
Nothing of value was lost.

>one manga shuts down

don't see a problem there

>>38201256
So how long did you pull out of your ass to post that?

so what's with 1000manga?

>>38197471
my face when this

Anyone who says that this isn't a big deal or that this is a good thing is a shill for Western publishers like Yen press and Viz. These crooks overcharge for their (mostly crappy) localizations that are printed on crap paper. English releases in the U.S. will run you anywhere between $10-$20 per volume and they attempt to validate these prices by claiming that they are selling an imported good. In Japan most readers have the more casual access to the phone book sized jump volumes which have consistent releases and can buy the volumes later on(for prices ranging from $3.50-$8.00) if they really enjoyed the story. We don't have that luxury and are now forced to choose between paying exorbitant prices for manga or not buying at all. I choose not to buy until the pricing improves.

>>38201386
Also shutting down

This thread distinctly smells of snobs.

>>38201386
will be down too

Online reading sites are actually useful for finding new manga to read. I wouldn't go to IRC to get a chapter from something I've never read, but I might just read a few pages of some random manga on an online viewing site, to see if it's worth downloading.

>>38201163

I knows, monster and 20th century boys because of Master keaton from 15 years ago.
I know Vagabond because of Slam dunk
I know vinland saga because I already read Planetes
I know Bakuman because of Hikaru no go.

What do you know about Manga beside some shity online reading site?

>>38201433

Well, I'm a scanlator who loves buying manga at $3 a pop back in China/HK/Taiwan, and this isn't a big deal for me. Manga readers are a dime a dozen anyways.

>>38201433
This, Japan has weekly issues of Jump and stuff that are 300-400 pages that are what, 200-400 yen (2-4 bucks)?

we get a single monthly one with just the shit 3 and a couple token manga for 5 bucks and they expect us to pay 8-10 bucks for volumes?

>>38201438
What did you expect? It's /a/.

>>38201438
Indeed, now get out of here and never return please

>>38201421
My face when this

Once again, Japan fails at digital distribution models.

People will not buy a product they've never previewed. It boggles me that they would go through the trouble of taking down a site that offers lower-resolution, non-tankoubon quality translated in ANOTHER LANGUAGE. It does not infringe upon Japanese sales like fansubs potentially do. These things are the primary way by which most people are exposed to new manga. We don't have the luxury of stuff like Weekly Shounen Jump, Monthly Gangan, and Dengeki Jishou coming out regularly with 4684 in them and for ~$4 a volume. I can sorta understand if they were planning to run a Crunchyroll-style site for manga, but in its absence, this is just fucking stupid.

>>38201712

Japan doesn't really care about profits from outside of their country.
but they do hates piracy.

so nothing of value was lost to them if they do this.

>>38201312
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>>38201820
Japan are assholes.

Did you not know this?